Trump is talking to associates about his interest in forming the "Patriot Party".
Conservatives in USMB, would you vote Republican or Patriot if this happens?
President Trump has talked in recent days with associates about forming a new political party, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to exert continued influence after he leaves the White House. Mr. Trump discussed the matter with several aides and other people close to him last w
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That would destroy the Conservative movement as a factor in US politics..at least at the Presidential level.
Did the Tea Party destroy the conservative movement, or the Republican Party, for that matter?
Tea party wasn't really a party, right? The conservative movement IS the Republican party..right now. A third party would split the vote...and serve the Dems quite well!
The GOP is not the conservative movement, as many Republicans are ideologically-aligned with the Democrats, and shouldn't even be allowed to call themselves "Republicans." Just as the Whig party was dissolved and the newly-formed Republican Party absorbed them, a disbanding of the GOP and forming a new party would not split the vote.
I don't see idiots like Romney wanting to be left without a party, therefore they would have no choice other than to join or become Democrats.